Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Template:Infobox animanga/Header Template:Infobox animanga/Print Template:Infobox animanga/Other Template:Infobox animanga/Footer Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no tani no Naushika) is a work of Hayao Miyazaki's. It started as a manga, and then later made into an anime.

Summary

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is about a young princess called Nausicaä, and is full of questions regarding right and wrong, and the human world in which we live.

Setting

The world of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is filled with a poisonous jungle that are filled with large, carnivorous insects, and it's slowly growing across the world.

Manga

The manga came out in 1982 and lasted until 1994.

Anime

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Directed by	Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by	Isao Takahata
Written by	Hayao Miyazaki
Music by	Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography	Hideshi Kyonen
Edited by	Naoki Kaneko Tomoko Kida Shiyoji Sakai
Release date	JPN March 4, 1984 NA February 22, 2005
Running time	116 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The movie came out in 1984. It is based on the manga. It follows the same plot as the manga, but it is less developed. It has several famous English actors, including Patrick Stewart, Uma Thurman, Shia LaBeouf, and Mark Hamill. It sold more than 1 million tickets when it came out, and it first came out in North America in the 1980s, but was called Warriors of the Wind. It was a cut version of the movie, losing 30 minutes of the movie that the editors called "slow-moving", and the voice actors were never told the plot of the movie. The emphasis that the movie had on environmentalism was diluted because of the cuts, and there was next to no character development. Miyazaki dislikes this version of the movie a lot, and made a "no cuts" clause to make sure this doesn't happen again. The uncut version of the movie was re-released in 2005 on DVD, and won a set of 3 film awards in 1985.

Cast

Character	Japanese	English 1985 dub	English 2005 dub
Narrator	(none)	Hal Smith	Tony Jay
Nausicaä/Princess Zandra	Sumi Shimamoto	Susan Davis	Alison Lohman
Lord Yupa	Goro Naya	Hal Smith	Patrick Stewart
Kushana	Yoshiko Sakakibara		Uma Thurman
Kurotowa	Iemasa Kayumi		Chris Sarandon
Mito	Ichirō Nagai		Edward James Olmos
Lastelle	Miina Tominaga		Emily Bauer
Asbel	Yōji Matsuda	Cam Clarke	Shia LaBeouf
Mayor of Pejite	Makoto Terada		Mark Hamill
Obaba	Hisako Kyōda		Tress MacNeille
King Jihl	Mahito Tsujimura		Mark Silverman
Muzu			James Arnold Taylor
Gikuri	Jōji Yanami		Jeff Bennett
Lastelle's Mother	Akiko Tsuboi		Jodi Benson
Gol	Kōhei Miyauchi		Frank Welker